The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803; explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commericial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the beginning of the nineteenth century; [Vol. 1, no. 24]

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to kill them, but only to conquer them; and for this
reason they had, during the whole time, a physician
upon the mountain to cure their hurts.
" Finally the governor saw that he could by no
means conquer them; but, on the contrary, his men
informed him that, judging by the courage and valor
which they showed, they would suffer till all the
pools and wells in Unjen were drained, rather than
give in. He therefore lost all hope of a victory over
them, and decided to order that they be taken to
Nangasaqui, although he would not do so before his
departure for the court at Meaco; for he thought
that it would diminish his prestige to have them
enter as victors into that city while he was there.
After his departure, therefore, he sent on the way
advice to his deputy whom he left there, to bring
them to Nangasaqui. This he accordingly did on
the fifth of January, placing Beatriz de Acosta in a
certain house, and putting the five religious into the
public prison, where they still remain. Such was the
victorious end of this battle, wherein our holy faith
was nobly vindicated, the Christians encouraged, and
the tyrant overcome and confounded, quite the contrary of what he had expected and promised.
" During the same time this governor seized and
sent to Sendo " the wives and daughters of the holy
martyrs who have perished in Nangasaqui from the
year 1617 to the present one, one thousand six hundred and thirty-two - separating many of them, who
were already married, from their husbands and sons.
They all accepted captivity for so holy a cause with
a good will, and before leaving protested before the
governor that they were and always would be Chris95 Probably Sendai, in the province of Satsuma.